LYSONS, REV. DANIEL, 31.A., was the eldest son of the Rev. Samuel Lysons, rector of Rodmarton in Gloucestershire, a family living, to which he succeeded in 1804, acid resigned to his eon in 1833. He was educated at Gloucester, and at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, at which uuiversity he attained the degree of M.A. in 1785. About 1790, while serving the curacy of Putney, he commenced his first topo graphical work, The Environs of London,' having been encouraged to the undertaking by Horace • Walpole, then earl of Orford. The first volume of this work was published in 4to in 1792, and was com pleted in 1796 by the publication of tho fourth ; they contained the parishes within a circuit of 12 miles of the metropolis, and an addi tional volume issued in 1800 completed the remaining parishes in the county of Middlesex. A second edition was published in 1811. In 1806 appeared the first volume of his great work, undertaken in conjunction with his brother Samuel, the Magna Britannia.' The
work was issued in separate volumes at irregular intervals till 1822, when, in the order of alphabetical arrangement, it had comprised the counties as far as Devonshire. Mr. Lysons also published a sermon or two, and a 'History of the Origin. and Progress of the Meeting of the threo Choirs of Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford ;' but his fame rests entirely upon his topographical works, which are excellent for their laborious research, accuracy of description, and useful record of matters, which would have been otherwise mast probably irrecoverably lost. Mr. Lysons died on the 3rd of January 1834. The whole of his topographical collections for the 'Magna Britannia' were presented by him to the British Museum; they are contained in 64 vols., and form Add. MSS. 9408-9471: